Posted on 01/25/2010 7:24:01 AM PST by Raquel
Every year on January 22 citizens across the nation March for Life in Washington D.C. to protest the 1973 decision of the US Supreme Court that legalized abortion on demand. And every year the media treats the story as insignificant. Just imagine if 300,000 people coalesced in Washington D.C. to protest so-called global warming, the amount of exposure they would have received.
Even the much acclaimed “fair & balanced” FOX news channel could barely muster the word “thousands” when reporting on the volume of the March (the reality is hundreds of thousands of people attended).
The only cable television channel that covered the March was EWTN thankfully; otherwise those unable to make the event, though strongly supportive of reversing Roe v. Wade, can now know what took place this year, and whether anyone in Washington is listening.
Unfortunately Washington is still not listening and neither is the media.
Thank you Respect Life Committee of Our Lady of Peace Church, Lynbrook, N.Y. for the following report:
According to the EWTN TV network, the estimated number of demonstrators that participated in the Pro-Life March on Washington was 300,000—up by from last year’s Associated Press figure of 250,000.
As of Saturday morning no national news network reported the event, except for CNN, whose Rick Sanchez asserted that he couldn’t differentiate the pro-lifers from the pro-abortion contingent. Anyone who has ever attended the march knows that supporters of abortion are few to none anywhere along the route of the march, but CNN managed to stage live footage giving the impression that both sides of the issue were represented by equal numbers.
The sheer number of people allowed, for the first time, for two separate marches : One started east on Constitution Ave., eventually reaching the US Supreme Court; and another march started west on F Street, ending on the National Mall.
The night before the March organizers held, for the first time, a two-hour rally across from the White House in Lafayette Park. In his commencement address at the University of Notre Dame in May, 2009, President Obama vowed to seek common ground on the divisive issue. Yet his proposed national health care legislation provides for federal funding of abortion.
On the morning of the march, a youth rally was held at the Verizon Center, Washington’s largest sports arena, at which the Archdiocese of Washington expected over 20,000 Catholic teens and young adults to attend from all over the U.S.
A Gallup poll conducted in May of 2009 found that 51% of Americans now describe themselves as pro-life, while only 42% consider themselves pro-choice. This marked the first time that more Americans said they were pro-life than pro-choice.
Another survey conducted by the Knights of Columbus and Marist College between December, 2009, and January, 2010, showed that the age group of 18-29 year olds believe that abortion is “morally wrong” at the rate of 58%. The population at large agreed with the young people, at the rate of 56%.
Locally, 990 Nassau County adult residents signed up to fill 18 buses to Washington. One bus of 55 residents represented our area, stretching from Valley Stream to Oceanside, and Lynbrook to Long Beach.
In addition, 330 Nassau County high school and college students signed up to fill 6 buses. Six parochial high schools participated, as well as Molloy College.
Fourteen buses represented Suffolk County.
These local statistics were reported to the Lynbrook/East Rockaway Herald in a Letter to the Editor, requesting news coverage. The letter has not been printed to date. The response was the same last year. We request that our fellow parishioners express their displeasure with biased news media.
I was there. It was huge. No pictures ... but the crowd seemed unusually solid to me. Some years it gets kinda spread out on the hill up to the SC building. Not So, this year.
A friend who goes every year reports that the march was bigger this year. Almost impossible to walk, there were so many people, and not just at the start but all the way through.
I went. Truly amazing how the media so conspicuously ignore this event year and year. The crowd was enormous. I was on the phone w/ my mom and she kept saying “I can’t find it on the news”, so I finally told her to turn to EWTN.
Maybe I missed it, but I didn’t even hear prolife talk show hosts talk about it (I bet Laura Ingraham did, though, but I can’t always pick her show up.)
This year the coverage was like a blackout. But, as someone else posted — those there, they saw, they know.
Thanks Coleus for the links!
I provided pictures of the prolife march to a lot of people, and next year I’m going to ask my local tv stations to cover it.
I’m looking for pictures showing the sheer numbers to post at my website. Do you think you can email me a picture or two? raquel@raquelokyay.com.
I got my pix from the various prolife march threads on FR, for instance:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2434958/posts
Send them to your friends.
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